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Career

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Noun

1. calling, career, vocation

the particular occupation for which you are trained

2. career, life history

the general progression of your working or professional life

Example Sentences:
'the general had had a distinguished career'
'he had a long career in the law'

Verb

3. career

move headlong at high speed

Example Sentences:
'The cars careered down the road'
'The mob careered through the streets'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Career

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noun
1. 
a path or progress through life or history
2. 
a profession or occupation chosen as one's life's work
3. (modifier)
having or following a career as specified
a career diplomat
4. 
a course or path, esp a swift or headlong one
verb
5. (intransitive)
to move swiftly along; rush in an uncontrolled way

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Career

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noun
1.  Obsolete
a racing course
2.  Archaic
a swift course, as of the sun through the sky
3. 
one's progress through life or in one's work
4. 
a profession or occupation which one trains for and pursues as a lifework
adjective US
5. 
pursuing a normally temporary activity as a lifework
a career soldier
verb intransitive
6. 
to move at full speed; rush wildly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Career

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n.
1.
a. A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
b. The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements: an officer with a distinguished career; a teacher in the midst of a long career.
2. A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
3. Speed: "My hasting days fly on with full career" (John Milton).
adj.
Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework: career diplomats; a career criminal.
intr.v. ca·reered, ca·reer·ing, ca·reers
To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control: "that lordly car ... How smoothly it ran. In what style they had come careering along the country roads!" (James Joyce).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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